John Dunovant

John Dunovant (5 March 1825-1 October 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
John Dunovant was born in Chester, South Carolina in 1825, and he served in a volunteer regiment of the US Army during the Mexican-American War; he was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec in 1847. On 29 December 1860, he resigned his US Army commission to join the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War, and he did not see much action until 1864; from 1862 to 1863, he was cashiered for drunkenness. In 1864, he led the 5th South Carolina in Wade Hampton III's division of the Army of Northern Virginia, and he was promoted to Brigadier-General on 22 August 1864. On 1 October 1864, Dunovant was shot dead by a New Jersey volunteer cavalryman while leading a charge down the Vaughan Road during a skirmish with the Union army.